St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-11
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Joe NEurphy's Great Erish Drama
Erey a large Audience at the
Grand fnSf Niohs

Joe NEurphy's Great Irish Drama
Erew Large Audience at the
| Grand last Ni2h,.
Thine proves all things" says the elo-
queLt 'rully, and tested by that standard
Kerry Cow" deserves to be written down
as the greatest dramatic success of the age.
For ten years has Joe Murphy been having
an uninterrupted brllianG success in his
production Of Fred Marsden's famous Irish
drama and yet it seemed to have lost none
Of its freshness and attractiveness for the
large audience which witnessed its peform-
ance at the opera house last evening. The
play went with all the snap and vigor that
1t did the first night it was put on the stage.
the same ripple of enthusiasm flowed out
from the audience, and Joe NJ urphy looked
as young as when for the first time he stood
by the pump and made love to Nora. There
are TWO reasons why Kerry Cow retains
its hold on popular favor. In the first
place. the plot is perfect in all its details,
and the text is as clean and pure piece of
humor as was ever woven into a dramatic
production. And i'll the second place, Joe
| Murphy is the finest delineator OF Irish
character on the stage. He has a natural
and agreeable style of impersonating Irish
character that is not exhibited by any other
actor, being neither an eXaggeration
nor carcature of tile original. He
is the witty. good-tempered, kind hearted
Irish lad throughout the piece, sufficiently
broad in his humOr to please everybody
without any of the offensive coarseEess
which is so frequently injected into per-
| formances of this character. There are
MANY pleasing episodes in Mr.. NIurphy'S
production of Kerry Cow" such as the
live pigeons flying around on the stage and
always obedient to the command of their
master, the real blacksmith shop with anvil
| and forge, and the realistic horseshoeing
scene in the third act, where Nh Murphy
makes horseshoe and nails it on a horse
| in true blacksmith STYLE in sight of the
audience. Mr.. Murphy has capable sup
| port. Miss Melville, the talented actress,
who has been his leading lady for the last
| five or six years. is still with him and con-
| tinucS to give a beautiful Interpretation of
the part of Nora, the faithful sweetheart.
Miss Perry'S representation of A lice Doyle,
the saucy help girl, is as chic and humor-
Gus as is possible to be. The whole cast is
well balanced and of unusual excellence.
| The same bill to night. To morrow after
noon and night Shaun Rhue."
AT THE OLYMPIC.
A pretty fair audience was at the Olympic
|
tainment in this city given by the Star Calf
| ope quartette. The performance was a good
| one the singing being way above that usually
| on the Olympic stage. The selections by the
| quartette were varied and entertaining and
! time after time they were called back The
| quartette is composed of Wesley jackson,
| George Taylor, William Farrell and Bob A.
| Kelly, each of whom has fine voice and well
! trained. In addition to the singing by the
| Quartette variety entertainment was given.
Miss White Valdeau and Miss Lulu Wallace
| sang several familiar songs quite cleverly.
Billy Wells appeared in the final act, a comedy
| entitled 1.-The Lunatic."
| DRAMATIC NOTES.
Spectators at q Sure-enough horse race
| never exhibited more intense interest or
manifested more excitement over the result
| than did the audience at the Grand last night
| when the carrier pigeons were bringing the
| bulletins from the race-course to Nora in the
| play. When Dan O'Hara dashed I'D on a
horse hecked with foam and shouted 1--WE
have won the race the house rang from pit
to dome with yells of eXultation from the
| excited audience.
At the Seventh street Dime museum yester-
day Mr.. John Kelly opened weeks engage
ment, presenting his comedy trifie Senator
Melee" The museum was crowded, and
Mr.. Kelly repeated his success of last season
Kelly ranks as the best dialect comedian on
! the vaudeville stage, and his work is artistic
in all Its details. His company is capable
The specialties up stairs in the bijou theater
and the curios received their share of atten-
ton.
Mr. Fitzgerald of the "Gypsy Baron" Opera
company, is in the city. He is an old hand
in the opera business, having been connected
with nearly all the opera productions in this
country. But he thinks that the "Gypsy
Baron has struck a lead that hasn't been
touched ny any other opera performance.
Joe Murphy paid blacksmith $3.50 to teach
him the art of making horseshoe and driv-
ing it. Having worked at it for the last seven
years he now accomplishes it in the highest
style of the art.
John S. Murphy, who plays the part of the
major in Kerry Cow is n brother of Joe.
He is comedian of the first quality and
could make good Dan o Hara himself
One of the pretty little white doves that was
here with the Kerry Cow last winter was
not seen last night 1t fell q victim to a cats
rapacity short time ago.
Sale of seats for Hanlon's "Fantasma"
| opens this morning.